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The course intends to provide the students with an introduction to the atmospheric processes which govern the earth’s climate and which control the surface water fluxes of the hydrological cycle, with a synoptic overview of the earth’s energy budget as a major driver for planetary-scale motion and atmospheric instabilities. This includes the issue of climate change, the possible reasons for climate change, and the natural variability of climate. Finally, it intends also to explain the synoptic and local processes that drive rainfall generation at different spatial and temporal scales and introduce global and regional climate models and their use in weather forecasts and climate change projections. It will finally look at how Human activities have effects on climate change and how they are changing rainfall patterns worldwide.